Greater Seat Park of Leisure

A shopping centre in Malaga has ‘Plaza Mayor, Parque de Ocio’ written on the roof. Babelfish tells me this Spanish sentence translates to “Greater Seat Park of Leisure”, which doesn’t make much sense, but a more educated person tells me that a better translation would be “Main Square Leisure Park”.

That’s the translation problem solved, but why did they write the text upside down?

That place is great. I go there all the time for their 20-screen cinemas.. three rooms of which are used for IMAX films. The place also has a fantastic gym, tons of various restaurants, some clubs and discos at night, and a fair number of shopping places.

I never knew they had that text written on the top.. but as someone pointed out, it is true that there is an airport right next to it and there’s planes coming back and forth all the time, so it makes sense.

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